Brenda Sullivan hails from Central Massachusetts, a place with some of the oldest English colonial settlements in North America and centuries-old cemeteries.
León, one of Nicaragua's oldest cities, retains its colonial architecture, and nearby León Viejo, one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000.
An old Portuguese colonial settlement that was originally named São Jorge dos Ilhéos (1532), it was given city status in 1881.
The industrial port city of Elizabeth, the county seat, was one of the oldest and most important colonial settlements in New Jersey.
Turkey and Greece, together with the old colonial power, Britain, would guarantee the settlement, if necessary by sending troops in if one side violated the new constitution.
As in all colonial settlements, the furniture of the American colonies reflected the style preferences of the individual national groups.
But they must eventually become either antiques (like old colonial dwellings in New England and along the Acela Corridor) or be folded in to reasonable human settlements that come about as a result of smart planning, humane design and caring attention to the thought of persons like Christopher Alexander.
People straggled back from old colonial churches.
"It reminds me of old colonial times.
Fort Nassau, near present-day Gloucester City, was one of the first colonial settlements in New Jersey (1623).
The island's other colonial settlements, also predominantly coastal, expanded slowly.
